Summary

  • Pakistan with eight balls to spare

  • Asif 27* (12), Shoaib 27* (20)

  • Asif & Shoaib add 48 off 23 balls

  • Rizwan 33 (34); Sodhi 2-28

  • Conway takes stunning diving catch

  • NZ 134-8: Rauf 4-22; Conway 27 (24)

  • Mitchell 27 (20), Williamson 25 (26)

  • NZ's Ferguson out of T20 World Cup

  • Super 12s, Group 2, Sharjah

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews, Ffion Wynne and Amy Lofthouse

  1. Trent Boult is back.

  2. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Pakistan don't need the big shots yet. They just need to lay a platform.

  3. Pak 82-4

    Need 53 runs from 36 balls

    Ish Sodhi continues on his way and a superb, sprawling dive by Mark Chapman stops him conceding a four off the final ball.

    Gonna be closer than I thought, this.

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    Erling L: Wow what a catch from Conway, this has to be the best speccy of the World Cup so far.

    Jack Rule: OMG what was that from Devon Conway! That should not have been humanly possible!

  5. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    This game is well and truly in the balance.

  6. Pak 76-4

    Need 59 from 41 balls

    Jimmy Neesham rattles though a reasonably economic over.

    Martin Guptill, incidentally, is sat in the dug out - he took a horrible whack on the toe from a Shaheen yorker earlier on. He ended up limping his way off the field.

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    Conway takes sensational catch to remove Hafeez

  8. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    In T20 cricket, you never want two new batters at the crease at the same time because you're under pressure at both ends.

  9. Pak 70-4

    Need 65 runs from 48 balls

    Imad Wasim comes out to join Shoaib Malik, and jogs a leg bye to end the over.

  10. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    The Pakistan crowd has gone very quiet all of a sudden.

  11. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    That's really well bowled. He's gone fuller, it's skidded on a bit and clattering into middle and leg.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Rizwan lbw Sodhi 33 (Pak 69-4)

    Mohammad Rizwan is out!

    What a fine comeback from Ish Sodhi, spearing this one in a bit fuller, and it pins Rizwan right on the crease. It looks very, very out and Rizwan, after a quick chat with his teammate, strolls off, bat under his arm.

  13. Pak 68-3

    Target 135

    Four!

    That's a lovely bit of timing from Mohammad Rizwan, pouncing on a bad short delivery from Ish Sodhi and smacking it between two fielders in the deep.

  14. Shoaib Malik is the new batter at the crease. Pleasingly, wearing a bandana, rather than a helmet.

  15. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Wow, wow, wow. That is one of the best bits of fielding we've seen in this competition so far. That looked like it was going for six the second it came off the bat.

    Moments like that change games.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Hafeez c Conway b Santner 11 (Pak 63-3)

    WHAT a catch!

    This is ridiculously good from Devon Conway! This felt like six all the way but Conway, charging around at long-on, throws himself to his left, and at full stretch, clings on to an absolute belter. My word.

    Conway takes sensational catch to remove Hafeez

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    Ilyas Najib: A win tonight and Pakistan would only need 2 wins out of their next 3 games, I make Pakistan firm favourites to make the semi finals.

  18. Mitch Santner is back.

    Meanwhile, I'm attempting to write this live with a dog on my knee. It's not easy.

  19. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It just takes one person to get 50 when you're chasing a small target, and the game completely changes. I would say that Pakistan are favourites but if New Zealand can take a couple of quick wickets, it could go either way.

  20. Pak 58-2

    Target 135

    Halfway stage.

    Pakistan need 77 runs from the final 60 balls.